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This is pretty funny stuff, featuring well known pitchman Anthony Sullivan of OxiClean fame along with Steven Stamkos, Teddy Purcell and Ryan Malone “pitching’’ a new four-game ticket plan. A well done production

While the full allotment of players reporting to the start of Lightning training camp likely will not be known until late Saturday, at least some of them were told Friday night.

Following Friday’s Syracuse Crunch shootout victory against Norfolk, Syracuse general manager Julien BriseBois announced that five players…

The Tampa Bay Lightning and the Tampa Bay Times Forum will hold a part-time job fair on Thursday, January 10 from 5-9 p.m. on the Promenade Level of the arena.  The fair is being held to fill positions for the upcoming Lightning hockey season as well as other Times Forum…

After nearly four months, the key to breaking the NHL lockout came in the wee hours of the morning.

Just before 6 a.m. Sunday word began to emerge that following a marathon 16-hour bargaining session in New York a tentative deal between the NHL and NHL Player’s Association has been…

Statement from Jeff Vinik, others are below

Tampa Bay Lightning Chairman and Governor Jeff Vinik today issued the follow statement today:

    “After working this week with our players toward what we hoped would be a new agreement, owners presented a proposal we believed would benefit those…

Burning the midnight oil was not enough to thaw hockey’s deep freeze quite yet.

For the second consecutive day, representatives from the National Hockey League and the NHL Player’s Association held marathon meetings in the hopes of settling the now 82-day long lockout that has already canceled games through Dec.…

Brendan Mikkelson became the fourth Tampa Bay Lightning player to bolt for Europe during the NHL imposed lockout that is now in its seventh week.

The 25-year-old defenseman signed a deal to play with Vasteras HK in the Swedish second division, according to Swedish website VLT.se, for the duration of…

Need a Lightning fix while the NHL is on hiatus due to the lockout? on Thursday nights, Sun Sports will be airing classic games for viewers. Two games - the inaugural game as well as the night Dave Andreychuk broke the NHL power play goal record - have already aired.…

Lightning goaltender Anders Lindback signed a two-month contract to play with Ilves in Finland, his agent confirmed on Saturday.

Lindback, acquired from Nashville during the summer, had been working out in his hometown of Gavle, Sweden, for the past month during the NHL lockout while weighing his options. The deal…

After the league released a statement regarding the NHL lockout this morning, the NHLPA has released a video from some of their players.
So with the lockout now on, both sides are still looking to win the court of public opinion instead of just trying to sit down and…

BoltProspects: RT @NHLAdamK: After 2 periods at Memorial Cup, Halifax leads London 8-2. Hat trick for Martin Frk, #2013NHLDraft prospects MacKinnon/Drouin…

BoltProspects: RT @Trichard71: Thanks to @Storm_City and @SyracuseCrunch for a great season with lots of memories. Headed home now, looking forward to nex…

BoltProspects: Latest #SYRCrunch Feature: Connolly Quietly Collecting Postseason Points http://t.co/L1KrACXVJj (by @JGHoughtaling) #TBLightning

BoltProspects: @chdgolembiewski which airport? Detroit?

BoltProspects: Oh no. Poor guy. RT @syrhockey: Heavy-hearted goalie Helenius should soon rejoin Syracuse Crunch | http://t.co/SnhjymRnwj

Lightning center Nate Thompson called winning a bronze medal with the United States at the world championship "a once in a lifetime experience I will never forget."

BoltProspects: @RawCharge I'm kind of indifferent. The experience would be good for the youngsters but there's a higher priority.

BoltProspects: RT @JGHoughtaling: I talked with Zettler, Namestnikov and Connolly after practice. I'll have a story up in http://t.co/nrC3SWCoDz soon.

BoltProspects: Nikita Kucherov is in Moscow, renting ice time, so it doesn't appear he'll join Syracuse any time before the fall.

Need to Know - The Crunch are 7-0 to begin the Calder Cup Playoffs with sweeps of Portland (3-0) and Springfield (4-0). - Ondrej Palat is tied for the AHL's postseason lead with 15 points; Tyler Johnson is second with 14 points. - Syracuse face...